Lac Recourbe Fishing in Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Recourbe is one of the Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean waters in Quebec. Beyond the shoreline you have boreal forest. With some 11 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. Shoreline comes to about 2.1 km, small enough to learn in a day. Compared with other Quebec water on our list, it sits high. Nearest town is Normandin, 59 km off. For a city, Saguenay is 172 km off. The nearest boundary is a fair way off.

• Where to Fish on Lac Recourbe

  There is no published depth for this one, so start shallow and work out. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Public occurrence data for Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean names northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish. Some of the species recorded here are protected or tightly regulated, so check what may be targeted before you fish. Work Lac Recourbe in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect July to average close to 16°C, with January the cold end at about -19°C. Open water is the exception rather than the rule here. Count the season from break-up, usually early May. Ice usually gives way near early May, and forms again about mid November. From the thaw to midsummer the fishing improves week by week. Expect Lac Recourbe to follow that timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. A wire trace and a big bright lure handle the pike; deep water asks for a heavier spoon. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. For a change of water, Lac Dangu is 0.9 km distant. Check the position on Lac Recourbe before loading the car.